Gentoo has put online experimental disk images of the 2004.3 live cd. Testing and comments are welcome.

Today, the OpenStep API celebrates its 10th anniversary. What started out as a joint adventure of NeXT and SUN to define an application development standard that would run on all machines, making "write once compile everywhere" a reality, is still unfolding within the vivid and active community of GNUstep, old NeXT and Apple lovers.

Peter Hall from HP has responded to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz. Apparently HP is still committed to the HP-UX operating system.

This article is for C++ programmers who are (at least for now) not targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework in new or existing applications. It provides some guidelines for moving to the .NET Framework without leaving behind the investment in existing code, and explains why you should consider moving to the .NET Framework not only for new development, but for existing applications as well.

Annotations, a means of providing your own metadata for your code, are among the major features of J2SE 5.0, but you don't have to move to 5.0 to use them. Kyle Downey introduces annotations and their implementation in several Java 1.4-compatible forms.

I wanted to love the radioSHARK from Griffin Technology, I really did. I'm a big fan of radio and I've been disappointed that it took so long for a company to develop and AM/FM turner for the PC. So when I heard about the radioSHARK I was excited. A quick trip to the Apple store and I had this little fin-shaped wonder.

Whether you're moving up from CVS or getting serious about a revision control system, here's a powerful tool that will keep records of changes and keep your projects under control.

"The HIG is only credible if it accurately reflects Apple’s actual policy. If the policy isn’t going to change, then the HIG should. To those of you who think this state of affairs is just fine, that there’s no problem with Mac OS X providing two disparate themes for developers to choose between based on whim, I ask this: If two themes are OK, why not three or four?" Read the editorial at DaringFireball.

Optimizing the performance of a system can save your company a considerable amount of money. In this chapter, you'll see how to streamline your system for maximum efficiency.

When you write .NET code that takes callback parameters, your first instinct may be to use delegates, but it may not occur to you that you can use an interface instead. Learn why and when an interface may be a better answer.

If you're not programming games or video, should you just forget about DirectX? Not necessarily.

The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive.

LiveBSD has just released a LiveCD based on FreeBSD 5.3 which is a heavily modified FreeSBIE that includes an installer that can be invoked via NCurses, CGI and even QT.

Early in 2003, Hideya Kawahara, a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, had an inspiration. Recognizing that desktops had not changed substantially in 20 years, he set out to make them more aesthetically appealing and more powerful.